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Compliance

What is the real cost of a data breach in Brazil?

The cost of a data breach goes far beyond the technical fix: slow detection, LGPD sanctions, response and reputational damage. Understand the drivers.

Berghem Research8 min read
  • lgpd
  • incident-response
  • compliance
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Pentest

Vulnerability management vs. pentest

Vulnerability management delivers breadth and continuity; a pentest proves depth and impact. See the differences, the cadence and how to combine them.

Berghem Research8 min read
  • vulnerability-management
  • pentest
  • penetration-testing
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Compliance

ISO 42001 and the EU AI Act: compliance guide

ISO/IEC 42001 defines the AI management system; the EU AI Act sets obligations by risk level. How the two relate and the practical path to compliance.

Berghem Research9 min read
  • compliance
  • iso-42001
  • eu-ai-act
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Compliance

PCI MPoC: what it is and who needs it

PCI MPoC is the standard that turns an ordinary smartphone into a payment terminal. See how it differs from SPoC and CPoC and who needs it in Brazil.

Berghem Research8 min read
  • pci-mpoc
  • compliance
  • payment-security
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AI Security

What is AI pentesting? How it works, when to do it

AI pentesting explained: what it is, how it works phase by phase, when to do it, and how the OWASP LLM Top 10 2025 applies to chatbots, agents and RAG.

Berghem Research9 min read
  • ai-security
  • pentest
  • llm
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AI Security

What is prompt injection? Types and defenses

Prompt injection: definition, direct vs. indirect, examples in chatbots, agents and RAG, why it is OWASP LLM01 and which defenses actually work.

Berghem Research11 min read
  • ai-security
  • prompt-injection
  • llm
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Red Team

What is Red Team? Adversary simulation guide

Red Team is the end-to-end simulation of a real adversary, run to test not only an organization's flaws but its ability to detect and respond.

Berghem Research10 min read
  • red-team
  • blue-team
  • purple-team
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AI Security

Agentic pentest with Berghem Agents: how it works

Agentic pentest uses AI agents that pursue an objective, chain flaws, and keep the specialist in control. How it works and where its limits are.

Berghem Research10 min read
  • ai-security
  • pentest
  • red-team
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Compliance

Pentest and BACEN compliance: CMN 4.893 and BCB 85

BACEN rules require a cybersecurity policy, incident response and an annual independent pentest. How the test yields the evidence the regulator expects.

Berghem Research8 min read
  • bacen
  • compliance
  • pentest
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Security Operations

SOC and MDR as a service: when it makes sense

When to buy SOC and MDR as a service instead of building an internal team, how to compare options and what to demand of a detection and response provider.

Berghem Research9 min read
  • soc
  • mdr
  • threat-intelligence
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AI Security

Promptware Kill Chain: attacking AI systems

Prompt injection is only the initial access. Our seven-stage framework to test AI systems end-to-end and map real 2025–2026 incidents.

Lorenzo Nava6 min read
  • ai-security
  • promptware
  • red-team
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AI Security

OWASP LLM Top 10: practical guide

The ten OWASP LLM categories: what each means in practice and how to test them with reproducible evidence.

Lorenzo Nava6 min read
  • ai-security
  • owasp
  • llm
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AI Security

MITRE ATLAS vs. ATT&CK: mapping AI attacks

ATT&CK describes the adversary in the infrastructure; ATLAS what they do to the model. How we cross-reference both in AI pentest.

Lorenzo Nava5 min read
  • ai-security
  • mitre
  • threat-intel
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AI · LLM · NVIDIA

From DGX Spark to 8x B200: How I Prototyped Locally and Trained a 4B Mamba-2 Model for €118

A practical journey from local prototyping on NVIDIA DGX Spark to training a 4-billion parameter Mamba-2 language model using 8x B200 GPUs on cloud infrastructure — all for just €118.

Lorenzo NavaApril 1, 2026
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